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Definition of Bluebills
1. bluebill [n] - See also: bluebill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bluebills
Literary usage of Bluebills
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outdoors: A Book of the Woods, Fields and Marshlands by Ernest McGaffey (1907)
"The larger bluebills are about nineteen inches long, with a spread of from thirty
to thirtythree inches of wings. Their plumage is black, green, ..."
2. A History of the Game Birds, Wild-fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and by Edward Howe Forbush, Willey Ingraham Beecroft, Herbert Keightley Job, Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture (1912)
"A party of four men got one hundred and ten Redheads and bluebills in five hours,
and many bags of twenty to fifty were made in the fall of 1908. ..."
3. Ducking Days: Narratives of Duck Hunting, Studies of Wildfowl Life, and by Charles B. Morss, William Chester Hazelton (1918)
"The bluebills were shot on the river'over decoys. Late in the season there are
some canvasbacks. ... bluebills frequent the main river and overflow also ..."
4. Tales of Duck and Goose Shooting: Being Duck and Goose Hunting Narratives by John Baptiste de Macklot Thompson (1916)
"San Francisco Bay and adjoining waters were literally alive with canvasbacks and
bluebills. It rained heavily and incessantly all day. ..."
5. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1920)
"The female bluebills seemed very anxious when they happened to spy my head in
the rushes, and swam back and forth with heads erect and crests raised giving ..."
6. Birds that Hunt and are Hunted: Life Histories of One Hundred and Seventy by Neltje Blanchan (1905)
"Gunners in the west and on the Atlantic shores from Long Island southward,
especially in the Chesapeake, where wild celery abounds, find the bluebills among ..."
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